Jaime Bayly

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Jaime Bayly (2011)

Jaime Bayly Letts (born February 19, 1965 in Lima , Peru ) is a Peruvian television presenter and writer . He is a US citizen.

Life

Bayly is the son of a banker. He broke off his law studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and devoted himself to journalism. He worked in Santo Domingo , Miami and Washington and had his own television shows in Lima for a long period of time.

His first novel was published in 1994 in Barcelona by the Seix Barral publishing house under the title No se lo digas a nadie (German: Say it to no one ). Within five months, the work saw six editions and placed Bayly in the top group of Spanish-writing writers. The novel was published in German by Ammann Verlag in Zurich in 1996 .

The action takes place in Lima, where the main hero Joaquín belongs to the rich upper class. The vulgar father drags him to the brothel for his 15th birthday and wants to turn him into a macho . The pious mother would rather see him as an angel and future priest. Joaquín feels drawn to his own gender, but fights against its inclination and takes refuge in relationships with women. It ends almost as kokainschnupfender hustlers in Miami, gets his life but in the end back under control.

In 1996 Bayly published the novel La noche es virgen , which has not yet appeared in German translation. He was awarded the Premio Herralde de Novela in 1997 .

It is often speculated how autobiographical Jaime Bayly's novels are. He himself plays with these blurred boundaries between reality and fiction, not least because of his provocative way of appearing on television.

He is married to the writer Silvia Núñez del Arco (* 1988) and has children. In public he has stated himself that he is bisexual .

Many of his novels revolve around homosexual protagonists (such as Joaquín in Tell It No or Gabriel in La noche es virgen ) who fight against their homosexuality and try to lead a beautiful life in Lima or to escape from it in order to be happy to become and to be socially accepted. The tension between Lima vs. Miami plays a big role.

Since 2001 Bayly can be seen in the show El Francotirador ( Eng .: "The Sniper" or "Sniper") on Peruvian television. The show was conceived to host the presidential candidates for the April 2001 election . Between humor and seriousness, he succeeded in often cornering the various candidates by addressing dark points in their past. So he invited z. B. an unrecognized daughter of the favorite Alejandro Toledo (President 2001-2006) and her mother, which Toledo almost cost the election. Despite his liberal stance, he publicly expressed his preference for the conservative candidate Lourdes Flores before the election because, in his view, she had no moral concerns.

The program was canceled in mid-2001 and did not appear again until the end of 2005 to also interview the candidates for the April 2006 elections . Although the show wasn't as snappy as it was in 2001, Bayly attacked the left-wing nationalist candidate Ollanta Humala heavily, mainly because of his attitude towards Jews, homosexuals and democracy. Humala still refuses to appear on the show to this day. Bayly also criticized the candidate Alan García (President 1985–1990 and 2006–2011), who, despite numerous invitations, never appeared on the show. Again he announced that he would vote for the candidate Lourdes Flores. After the elections in 2006, he dealt with guests from politics as well as numerous prominent artists and actors. The show has been less politically oriented since then.

In late 2009, Bayly announced that he would run in the April 2011 presidential election. Its liberal political agenda should include the introduction of gay marriage , legalization of abortion , legalization of drug trafficking , conversion of the military into a national police force in order to invest more in education, and a drastic reduction in spending on the legislature . The candidacy failed due to political differences with the party he favored.

Works

  • 1994 - No se lo digas a nadie (filmed in 1998 by Francisco Lombardi)
  • 1995 - Fue ayer y no me acuerdo
  • 1996 - Los últimos días de "La Prensa"
  • 1997 - La noche es virgen (1997 award "Premio Herralde de Novelas")
  • 1999 - Yo amo a mi mami
  • 2000 - Los amigos que perdí
  • 2002 - La mujer de mi hermano (filmed in 2004 by Ricardo de Montreuil and Stan Jakubowicz)
  • 2004 - El huracán lleva tu nombre
  • 2005 - Y de repente, un ángel
  • Bayly's short story Extrañando a Diego appears in Alberto Fuguet's anthology McOndo .
  • 2008 - El Canalla Sentimental
  • 2009 - El cojo y el loco

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alberto Tauro del Pino: Enciclopedia ilustrada del Perú , El Comercio, Lima 2001, Volume 2, p. 321.

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personal data
SURNAME Bayly, Jaime
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bayly Letts, Jaime (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peruvian television presenter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Lima , Peru